1001. What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race. – Thomas Sowell

1002. BATF=Bad Attitude Towards Freedom – Anonymous

1003. If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace. – Voltaire

1004. Writing to Washington won’t help; he’s dead! – Anonymous

1005. A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. – Justice Atonin Scalia

1006. Orwell is starting to look like an optimist! – Anonymous

1007. What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. – H.L. Mencken

1008. FBI=Freedom Bashers, Inc. – Anonymous

1009. Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action. – Ayn Rand

1010. Defend America against the government. – Anonymous

1011. A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim. – L Neil Smith

1012. When only the police have guns, it’s called a police state. – Anonymous

1013. The government is not your daddy. The government is not your mommy. – Anonymous

1014. Work harder, millions on welfare on depending upon you. – Anonymous

1017. This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. – Unknown

1018. If there’s anything a public servant hates to do it’s something for the public. – Anonymous

1019. The end of the law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. – John Locke

1020. If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson

1021. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. – Thomas Jefferson

1022. Republicans don’t want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don’t want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun. – Andre Marrou, LP Presidential candidate

1023. I don’t want my children fed or clothed by the state, but I would prefer that to their being educated by the state. – Max Victor Belz, Grain dealer, Grundy County, Iowa

1024. The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away. – Frank Chodorov, Time for Secession

1025. The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually every turn. – Jeff Baxter

1026. Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom. – F.A. Hayek

1027. The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. – Alexis de Tocqueville

1028. Many people today think that the government’s job is to take care of us. But I agree with the Delcaration of Independence, which says that the government’s job is to secure our rights (our inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness). – Tom Parker

1029. An inherent weakness of a pure democracy is that half the voters are below average intelligence. – Unknown

1030. Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson

1031. The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively. – Walter Lippmann

1032. Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

1033. I cannot undertake to lay my finger upon an article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. – James Madison

1034. It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights – the “right” to education, the “right” to health care, the “right” to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery – hay and a barn for human cattle. – Alexis De Tocquiville

1035. In a society obsessed with arranging every detail of existance, the unintended is ominous. – Unknown

1036. The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. – Alan Ashley-Pit

1037. Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives. – Jeff Baxter

1038. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy

1039. Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom. – Rudolph Rummel

1040. Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps. – David Lloyd George

1041. If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him. – George Herbert

1042. The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy. – Unknown

1043. The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-by to the Bill of Rights. – H.L. Mencken

1044. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. – Lysander Spooner

1045. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one’s property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage. – Walter Williams

1046. Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress. – Dr. James Randi

1047. Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. – Thomas Jefferson

1048. The plans differ; the planners are all alike… – Frederic Bastiat

1049. We want our rulers to be quarterbacks rather than merely referees. – Doug Newman

1050. “Solve” and “Problems” are not in the constitution. – Doug Newman

1051. There are three things which I do not want the government choosing for me: my doctor, my school, and my God. – Doug Newman

1052. Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? – Martin Luther

1053. If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it. – Lew Goldberg

1054. Politics is a clash of interests masquerading as a clash of principles. – Anonymous

1055. Can’t feed’em? Then don’t breed’em. – Anonymous

1056. A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We’re sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it. We’ve given up nearly every personal liberty in the name of a false sense of security sold to the masses by the same type of maniacal government about which you warned us and against which you fought so bravely. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you. – Phil Murphy 7/4/02

1060. There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. – Frank Chodorov (1887-1966), American Essayist and Journalist

1061. The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. – Henry Clay (1777-1852), US Senator

1062. I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds … I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution. – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th US President

1063. The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. – Bill Clinton, 42nd US President

1064. You can’t say you love your country and hate your government. – Bill Clinton, 42nd US President

1065. If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. – Bill Clinton, 42nd US President

1066. I can spend your money better than you can. – Bill Clinton, 42nd US President

1067. Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign. – Bill Clinton, 42nd US President

1068. Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves. – Richard Cobden (1804-1865), Member of Parliament

1069. Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. – Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President

1070. If you kill one person you are a murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten thousand you are a national hero. – Vassilis Epaminondou, Greek Social Reformer

1071. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. – Theodore J. Forstmann, American Business Executive and Philanthropist

1072. Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you. – Benjamin Franklin

1073. Adam Smith’s key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit. – Milton Friedman

1074. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman

1075. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work. – Milton Friedman

1076. What kind of a society isn’t structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm. – Milton Friedman

1077. Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy – all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values. – Milton Friedman

1078. History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. – Milton Friedman

1079. When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else’s money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn’t care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else’s money on someone else, he does’t care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that’s government for you. – Milton Friedman

1080. Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. – Robert A. Heinlein

1081. Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

1082. The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the “best” sources. – Walter Karp (1934-1989), American Journalist and Political Theorist

1083. Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people. – JFK

1084. There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. – F.A. Hayek

1086. War has become a spectator sport for Americans. – Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque, Co-founder, Center for Defense Information

1087. To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying. – Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), Member of Continental Congress, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Senator

1088. Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure. – Robert LeFevre (1911-1986), Political Theorist, Educator, Journalist and Author

1089. Give peace a chance. – John Lennon

1090. Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. – Benjamin Lichtenberg

1091. Successful … politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. – Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), American Journalist and Author

1092. Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience … – John Locke (1632-1704), English Political Philosopher

1093. The end of the law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. – John Locke (1632-1704), English Political Philosopher

1095. Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. – General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Supreme Allied Commander, General of the U.S. Army

1096. No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. – General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Supreme Allied Commander, General of the U.S. Army

1097. It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. – George E. MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish Novelist

1098. It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason. [1947] – Robert M. MacIver (1882-1970), Scottish Sociologist

1099. … The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature … the executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. – James Madison (1751-1836), 4th U.S. President

1100. If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. – James Madison (1751-1836), 4th U.S. President

1101. Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. – John Marshall (1755-1835), Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

1102. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government … – US Constitution, Article 4, Section 4.

1103. The word “Democracy” cannot be found in the American Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution, or in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, or the Constitutions of any of the States. – Unknown

1104. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds. – Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), U.S. Supreme Court

1105. Unless a good deed is voluntary, it has no moral significance. – Everett Dean Martin (1880-1941), Political Philosopher

1106. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. – Guy de Maupassant (1850-1892), French Author

1107. I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. – H.L. Mencken

1108. The average man doesn’t want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. – H.L. Mencken

1109. Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. – John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Economist and Philosopher

1110. The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor. – Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912), Belgian Economist and Philosopher

1111. A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. – Felix Morley (1894-1981), American Journalist, Educator and Author

1112. It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. – Felix Morley (1894-1981), American Journalist, Educator and Author

1113. It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. – Thomas Paine (1737-1809), American Revolutionary and Author

1114. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. – Isabel Paterson (1886-1961), American Author

1115. The degree of a country’s freedom is the degree of its prosperity. – Ayn Rand (1905-1982), Novelist and Philosopher

1116. As government expands, liberty contracts. – Ronald W. Reagan, 40th U.S. President

1117. It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. – Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995), American Economist, Historian, Political Theorist, and Author

1118. It is easy to be conspicuously “compassionate” if others are being forced to pay the cost. – Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995), American Economist, Historian, Political Theorist, and Author

1119. The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State. – Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995), American Economist, Historian, Political Theorist, and Author

1120. War does not determine who is right–only who is left. – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), English Philosopher, Author, 1950 Nobel Prize-Winner in Literature

1121. Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), English Philosopher, Author, 1950 Nobel Prize-Winner in Literature

1122. The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. – Thucydides (460-400 B.C.), Greek Historian

1123. The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. – Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), French Philosopher and Author

1124. The program of [classical] liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. – Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), Austrian Economist and Author

1125. This, then, is freedom in the external life of man–that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. – Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), Austrian Economist and Author

1126. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. – Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), Austrian Economist and Author

1127. The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave. – Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), Austrian Economist and Author

1128. The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. – Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), American Playwright, Poet, Historian

1129. The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. – George Washington

1131. The main point of a constitution is to put limits on what aspects of life are subject to majority rule. – Ronald Bailey

1132. If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world. – Lord Halifax

1133. When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. – Lord Lytton

1134. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. – James Madison

1135. The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity. – Thomas Sowell

1136. It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master. – Ayn Rand

1137. The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. – H.L. Mencken

1138. Where Liberty dwells, there is my country. – Benjamin Franklin

1139. Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense. – Robert Heinlein

1140. All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. – Walter B. Wriston

1141. It’s easier to scare someone than to persuade him. – Edwin Feulner, president of The Heritage Foundation

1142. 8 words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let’s make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We’re better than you; Do it our way. – Gary North

1143. lib·er·tar·i·an: One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state. – American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1144. The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that’s our turf, buddy! – Jay Leno

1145. As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? Think about it – it was written by very smart people, it’s served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we’re not using it anymore. – Jay Leno

1147. In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. – Lawrence Summers

1148. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government. – Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

1149. Suppose the Second amendment said “A well-educated electorate being necessary for self-governance in a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed.” Is there anyone who would suggest that means only registered voters have a right to read? – Robert Levy, Georgetown University professor

1150. The government’s War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. – Harry Browne

1151. An inevitable consequence of socialism is the division of society into two groups: those who are consuming government “services” and those who are paying for them. – Lee Robinson

1153. Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

1154. It is much cheaper and enormously more profitable for the special interests to purchase the regulatory favors of Washington’s political harlots than to compete in a fair, unsubsidized markeplace. – Lee Robinson

1155. Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help… – Gandhi

1156. … an increase in the power of the State … does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress… – Gandhi

1157. The intent of the Second Amendment is to arm the people to frighten government and to keep it in check. – Ted Lang

1158. Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to F. W. Gilmer, 1816

1159. Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. – Thomas Jefferson

1175. The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty – and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. – H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, Feb. 12, 1923

1176. Expecting the government to fight the deficit is like expecting the Mafia to fight crime. – Anonymous

1177. 80% of success is showing up. – Woody Allen

1178. F x S=k. The product of freedom and security is a constant. – Anonymous

1214. What the government gives, it must first take away. – John S. Coleman

1215. Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. – Thomas Jefferson

1216. With respect to the words “general welfare,” I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. – James Madison

1217. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. – Abraham Lincoln

1232. A problem well stated is a problem half solved. – C.F. Kettering

1233. I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand. – Confucius (B.C. 551-479)

1234. I don’t have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. – Ashleigh Brilliant

1235. The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.” – Thomas Jefferson

1236. The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. – Friedrich A. Hayek, in “The Road to Serfdom”

1237. The fatal flaw in socialism is twofold: first, the conceit inherent in the desire to plan the lives of others; second, the force necessary to impose that plan on unwilling subjects. This is not a formula for freedom but for tyranny.

1244. From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either the one or the other, but not both at the same time. – Friedrich von Hayek

1245. That measures of this nature [the draft] should be debated at all in the councils of a free government is cause of dismay. The question is nothing less than whether the most essential rights of personal liberty shall be surrendered and despotism embraced in its worst form. – Daniel Webster

1246. The Constitution: it’s not just a good idea, it’s the law. – Michael Badnarik, 2004 LP Presidential candidate

1254. The government that we gave limited power to – to protect our rights – has grown into a hideous behemoth that continually increases its power and now enslaves the people, and causes strife throughout the world. – Tom Parker

1255. Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others. – Groucho Marx

1256. Many say that since all the signers of the Constitution were Christian, this is a Christian country. However, they were all white males as well. Are we a White Male Country? – “bostnfound”, in a Free State Project forum, 7/04

1257. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. – Thomas Jefferson

1258. Most people … aren’t just ignorant or stupid: they genuinely prefer government control of their own and their neighbors’ lives. We can hand out flyers for the rest of our lives, publish as many books as we like, make speeches until we’re blue in the face, and most of them aren’t going to change their minds. While they disagree among themselves about the details, authoritarians of one sort or another constitute an overwhelming majority. – Max Orhai, Liberty Magazine, 6/04, page 23

1262. It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. – George Washington

1264. Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. – James Madison

1289. When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry. – P. J. O’Rourke

1290. Vows made in a storm are forgotten in calms. – Old English saying

1291. If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government’s present activities would not exist. That’s why no one in Washington ever mentions it. – Thomas E. Woods, Jr. in The Policitally Incorrect Guide to American History

1292. The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn’t much matter who controls it, because it can’t do you much harm.

1295. The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. – Rep. Ron Paul in Democracy Is Not Freedom

1302. Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. – Frank Chodorov

1303. As the state grows, one’s sense of self-ownership is destroyed, liberty is traded for “security,” the human spirit diminishes, and the citizenry increasingly thinks and behaves like dependent children.

1305. We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government’s power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.

1311. An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do. – Robert LeFevre

1312. You don’t need a treaty to have free trade. – Murray Rothbard

1313. Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America. – Thomas L. Johnson

1314. The Free Market is Mother Nature’s way of organizing economic activity.

David Aitken Colorado Libertarian

Private email to Ralph Shnelvar on 20-13-10-13

1315. Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

David Aitken Colorado Libertarian

Private email to Ralph Shnelvar on 20-13-10-13

1316. Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”

1317. I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.